Thanks aero280, what I find frightening about that news account; one gang has been doing it for 30 years, so much for the Post Office working closely with the Police ,and the guy in Thame got a mere 10 months.

Every day is a good day, it's just that some days are better than others.

I had two emails yesterday, one suggesting I clicked on a link to contact a lady who had apparently decided to share well over £1,000,000 with me and the other, which looked very genuine, supposedly from Apple saying there was a problem with my account and I needed to do things by clicking on links before recent purchases could be honoured. The only thing I use Apple for is occasional use of i tunes and recent purchases are on my i pod and being played every day so have been honoured.

I didn't click on anything but it would have been very easy to have done so.

I had a very dodgy looking email purporting to come from amazon.co.uk, which said that accounts not used within the last 6 months were going to be deleted, and giving a link if you wanted to keep your account. What made me suspicious was that it was written in very poor English - lots of grammatical mistakes. Unfortunately some people might not be suspicious if they don't notice the mistakes.

I deleted the email, but realise now that I should have reported it to Amazon.

Just before I went on holiday I had a call from a dodgy looking number. It was a recorded message saying I had been reported for tax evasion (!) and should ring back immediately for “legal” advice. I ignored it and so far HMCR has not come knocking on my door...

I don't know if it works in the UK but here we can look up an unknown number and seee where it comes from. recently we have had a number of calls, none of which we have answered, from an 08 number and it turns out they are, indeed dodgy. This would only work if you have a number calling display.

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There are a number of sites on which we can look up numbersThe trouble is the scammers now have a way of making the number you see on the phone screen different from the one they are actually using, and even if you try to use the phone to call the number in its memory you get a recording saying the number is not a valid number.

Our theory is that if the call is urgent or important there will be a message left on voice mail. We have just stopped giving anyone our mobile number, even if they insist because of our total lacck of mobile signal. Problem is trying to convince anyone that we truly can't receive mobile messages.

Even the family didn't believe it until they came in the summer and tried on their own very smart phones - as D-I-L said there just isn't a box to tick or a line to fill in which says "No mobile phone!"

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Not a scam but something that is quite shocking.I received a letter from HMRC today - brown envelope on the doormat so I opened it only to find that it was addressed to a Mr S Bloggs but the address was correct.Mr Bloggs had apparently contacted HMRC to find out his NI number which they had provided - along with his date of birth!If I was a fraudster this would be an absolute gift!I have contacted HMRC and asked them to investigate why Mr Bloggs has used my address for his correspondence. Surely HMRC would know a tax payers address and not send mail to any other address than that they hold on record.I've owned this house for over 10 years and before that it was empty for about 5 years so not a previous owner.

[quote="Meganthemog"]Surely HMRC would know a tax payers address and not send mail to any other address than that they hold on record.I've owned this house for over 10 years and before that it was empty for about 5 years so not a previous owner.[/quoteHMRCdon't database addresses correctlyWhen I moved I had mail forwarded for 1 yearAnd I informed them of my change of address; I have a few HMRC docs with the new address on dating from about that timeAfter about 8 years I got a really nasty letter at this address (never found out how they claim to have discovered this) basically accusing me of being an evil fraudster because I was hiding from themThe lack of contact hadn't worried me, as I had some dealings with them through PAYUE - which had the correct addressWhat finally p-d me off was the jobsworth who got really angry with me because I couldn't provide some 11 year old document she though she might like to see; when I mildly pointed out that this was more than 7 years before, so I didn't have it she accused me of trying to defraud HMRC; apparently honest people don't know the rules

I did a bit of sessional work at a local college about 8 years ago and was (forcibly) enrolled in their pension.As I am approaching my diamond jubilee, this week I received a letter asking if I really am Wordsworth and do I really live at this address because they wrote to me at a different address and the correspondence was returned marked "gone away 'I scanned over to them an envelope, with their frank, from 6 years ago.I am pleased to report they accepted that as proof that I really am Wordsworth and I do live here.But I don't want to squander the £27 per year I am entitled to.

Just had a call from a man with very poor English telling me that my BT internet connection was about be terminated. He asked me to go to my computer and log in to a special site and he would talk me through how to fix the problem.

I would have spun it out, but I'm old so I was watching Countdown, and didn't have time.

I have had a letter from HMRC asking me to send them the letter I received - even though they told me to destroy it 3 weeks ago. Fortunately as I am a slut the pile of paper waiting to be shredded before recycling is still sitting on the shredder -so I have copied it and sent the original to them. We'll see what excuse they come up with.

I have had a dodgy looking email from Microsoft today. They have never emailed me, and as far as I know, no need to. I shall ignore.My Dad recently had two horrible viruses infect his laptop which he is stuck with for now. Things that just crept up on him with no warning. These are impacting the visual side of things online, such as text going light to dark, flashing, documents losing page breaks, apostrophe's, spaces. I sent him a document and he emailed me - what the heck is wrong with your grammar? I re-read my document, nothing wrong with it my end!

It's not only the gullible who get caught. A man emailed his solicitor for BACS details to transfere £120,000 as final payment for a house purchase. Unbeknown to either side, his emailed was intercepted by hackers so the money went straight into their account. He lost the lot.

Similar scam on BBC breakfast this morning, though the £300,000 was recovered.

Reported about a week ago, a woman had ordered a £300 item through Amazon from a third party seller. When a parcel arrived, she signed for it but on opening discovered it was a cheap item she hadn't ordered. As far as Amazon was concerned, as she's signed for it, there was nothing they could do.

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i've had so many of those - up to three a day (- they've stopped for a while and the banks that i don't have accounts with have started again). i automaticaly click to report them as phishing scams. the real ones from amazon don't go into my junk folder.

dennispc wrote:It's not only the gullible who get caught. A man emailed his solicitor for BACS details to transfere £120,000 as final payment for a house purchase. Unbeknown to either side, his emailed was intercepted by hackers so the money went straight into their account. He lost the lot.

Similar scam on BBC breakfast this morning, though the £300,000 was recovered.

I'd Never put bank account details into an email - definitely something to avoid, for just the reasons you've quoted. Emails can so easily be hacked

I would have thought the solicitors should have warned their client not to do that

Rainbow, it's worse than you think. His email asked the solicitors for their details. The email never reached them. The email he received back was from the hackers, pretending to be the solicitors.

Within our family we've sent emails to each other asking for details, in order to transfer money. That's how on-line banking works. Last year I bought an iPhone from a friend by asking for his bank details in an email and transferring the money.

Every day is a good day, it's just that some days are better than others.

From out IT department at work:** Security alert - Netflix Phishing attack **

"There is a massive scam campaign going on, this time a very well executed Netflix phishing attack.

How does it work?The scam targets subscribers telling them that their account is about to be canceled. The well-designed, personalized fake email convinces customers to update their account information to avoid suspension. This results in stolen personal and credit card information.

Why is it dangerous?The email has the subject line “Your suspension notification” and includes a link where the subscriber is taken to a fake Netflix page which requires their log-in information as well as credit card number.

The scam was detected Sunday and it targets nearly 110 million Netflix subscribers. As mentioned, the fake site includes Netflix’s logo as well as popular Netflix shows like “The Crown” and “House of Cards” to make it seem legitimate. "

Not quite a scam Q. but our landline phone has the facility for a readout and having a call that says ' caller withheld number' do you answer the call or not? Most of our landline numbers say the number or if in our directory tell us who is calling.

I do answer number withheld, as alI reckon it's about 50/50 whether it's legitimate or nuisance, some businesses withhold the number simply because it doesn't suit them to have customers making calls to the number that call is made from. I think it's policy for example for some companies to withhold a lot of their mobile numbers so staff don't get plagued by return calls when they are out on a job.I do get a bit suspicious about "number out of area" calls as I get very few legitimate overseas calls, but I tend to answer them anyway on the grounds that it is less complicated than messing about

As previously noted, serious scammers somehow manage to get the display to show a reasonable looking number that can't be reached, and if you don't answer all numbers you don't recognise you can miss quite important calls from utilities, banks etc. that use multiple numbers